Sir William Walker

Sir William Walker (-1854) was an employee of the Antilles Royal Sugar Company and the British Admiralty who was responsible for the 1844 revolution in Queimada and the quelling of the 1848-54 revolt by Jose Dolores.

Biography
Born in London in Great Britain, Walker became an agent of the British Admiralty during a time when Britain was enemies with Portugal. In 1838 he was sent as a provocateur to the island of Queimada in the Lesser Antilles to set up a pro-British government that would let the Antilles Royal Sugar Company take its sugarcane. Arriving that year, he was too late to meet with the rebel leader Santiago, who was captured ten days earlier; Walker watched his execution and subsequent beheading.

Walker, looking for a new leader, met a slave named Jose Dolores and convinced him that the white man's word was not always true, although it took Walker hitting him to make Dolores learn how to defend himself. Soon, he approached several slaves for a plan to rob the Banco Espiritu Santo, and the slaves successfully stole 100,000 Reales from the bank. When the Portuguese Army chased Dolores and Walker, Dolores decided to distribute rifles to the people to defend themselves against the whites, and they slaughtered the tens and twenties of the Portuguese troops. Soon, Dolores ignited a revolution, gaining an army of thousands. Portuguese reinforcements were kept from Queimada by the Royal Navy, who blocked the ports from the Portuguese Navy.

After seeing that white aristocrat Terry Sanchez became President of the Queimada Provisional Government, Walker left for a new job in Indochina. However, he eventually fell into poverty and lived in a rough part of London. In 1854, he was approached by two Englishmen of the Antilles Royal Sugar Company, who wanted him to quell a rebellion in Queimada in exchange for some money. He became the commander of the army in Queimada alongside General Alfonso Prada, who took over from Sanchez after Sanchez attempted to take power over the army. Prada invited British troops and they eventually caught Dolores, who lost part of speech and everything else. Walker tried to set Dolores free, but Dolores refused, and accepted his fate; he was hung.

As Walker left for his ship with his bags, he heard a man ask for his bags in a voice that reminded him of Dolores. Thinking that Dolores was really there, Walker smiled and turned, but was stabbed in the chest by the man, who was seeking revenge for Dolores' death.